>> I was watching TV on an all-in-one PowerMac today at school. While the >> video was filling the whole computer screen, it was obvious that the picture >> wasn't 640X480, but looked more like pixel-doubled 320X240. This made it >> very hard to read small text and make out details. I don't know if all TV >> tuner cards work this way, but I would guess that if a PowerMac can only do >> 320X240, a 68K Mac probably wouldn't do any better. > > This is not the Mac's fault. TV resolution is very low and at a very > low refresh rate. There are two ways of going about stretching it > onto a bigger screen res. One is pixel doubling (where one TV pixel > is represented as a block of 4 pixels on the screen) and the other is > interleaving. Either way it makes TV pictures look bad, and they get > worse the higher the screen res you stretch them over.
This was only stretching to 640X480, and I could tell that what I was seeing was lower resolution than a TV broadcast, since I couldn't read the small text on the screen. There was a real TV in the room, with a screen size twice that of the PowerMac, but the picture was much clearer and less blocky. The original poster was asking if a Mac with a TV card would be a good substitute for a real TV. I say no, unless the poster doesn't want to read text on TV or make out fine details. -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
